Tasting Notes

WA92

Introducing a new cuvee from 15-year-old vines in an especially promising section of Chavignol’s Grand Cote (think: Cotat) Boulay has rendered a 2010 Sancerre La Cote. Even in this site, the wine weighs in at just over 13% alcohol, whereas Boulay managed to keep levels substantially lower in his other bottlings. Fuller and richer this may be than its stable mates, but it also reveals a fine sense of transparency to nuances of lily-of-the-valley and iris perfume, and to shimmering mineral nuance. Grapefruit and white currant offer sap, vivacity, and pungency; and this finishes lusciously, yet invigoratingly, thanks to persistent florality and the impingement of citrus zest, white pepper, chalk, and pungent herbs. It should be worth following for a dozen or more years.

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